We are pleased to announce that Immigration Daily subscribers have now crossed 30,000 (pursuant to our merger with Immigrants Weekly). What does this mean? This means that we are a medium-size news organization in the United States, permit us to explain. We estimate that there are only about 500 to 1000 daily newspapers with greater circulation in the US, and only about 1000 to 2000 news websites with greater daily readers. As text-based news organizations go in America (i.e. excluding TV, Radio, etc), we rank somewhere between 2000 and 4000 in reach. Bear in mind that this is ALL news organizations. Among immigration news organizations, we are larger than everyone else combined.

Here are some factoids to illustrate the above. Immigration Daily's subcription base is now larger than any daily newspaper in Wyoming. Granted, not too many people live in Wyoming, so we have selected a few newspapers from the 7 most populated states, we are now larger than all of the herebelow:

USCIS Issues Asylum Pamphlet
The Chief of the Asylum Division, USCIS issued a Memorandum on the Publication of Information Guide for Prospective Asylum Applicants.

CIS Ombudsman Issues 2008 Annual Report
Ths CIS Ombudsman issued its 2008 report addressing "progress in resolving long-pending FBI
name checks, and the unusually large 2007 summer surge of
approximately three million applications sent to USCIS."

Help Wanted: Immigration Paralegal
Knoxville, TN - Kramer Rayson LLP seeks an immigration
paralegal with experience in the immigration field. Job responsibilities
include the preparation and filing of business and employment-related
immigration documentation and communications with government agencies and
clients. Qualified candidates must have excellent writing, technical,
communication and organizational skills with an attention to detail. BA or
MA preferred. Please e-mail your confidential resume with your specific
experience, salary requirements and writing sample to Marc Upchurch,
Executive Director at mupchurch@kramer-rayson.com or fax number (865)
522-5723.

Help Wanted: Immigration Paralegal
Dallas, TX - Law Offices of Richard A. Gump, Jr. P.C., an immigration law firm located in the Galleria area, seeks a full time immigration paralegal. Ideal candidate has a BA degree and a minimum of three years experience preparing employment-based and family-based cases. Please fax resume to: 972-386-9547 or email to: rickgump@rickgump.com.

Help Wanted: Immigration Paralegals
Ridgewood, NJ - Nachman & Associates, PC seeks Senior Immigration Paralegals and a U.S. Office Manager. For the Senior Immigration Paralegal position qualified candidates must have 3+ years of heavy business immigration experience. Senior Paralegal position requires direct client contact, strong communication skills, detail orientation, organizational skills, ability to meet deadlines, interpersonal skills, team-mindedness, customer service skills, PC skills, multi-tasking, and work under pressure. The U.S. Office Manager position will manage the paralegal staff and be responsible for running the U.S. offices. Candidate must possess 2+ yrs of management experience in a law firm and handle: employee orientation, vendors, compliance with firm policies, employee relations, organizing team meetings, and management of work flow and assignments, preparation of engagement letters, A/R and A/P, respond to clients, manage calendar of events. BA preferred. E-mail resume and salary requirement to david_nachman@visaserve.com specifying position in subject line. EOE.

Border And Consular Assistance
For visa application processing at US-Canada border or at US
Consulate in Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa and/or Quebec, please contact Charles J.
Leamy at Ogilvy Renault LLP. Mr. Leamy is a Montreal-based AILA member
with more than 15 years experience in U.S. immigration law. Ogilvy
Renault s Business Immigration team will accompany your client and
provide representation at border/consular posts. We have wide-ranging
expertise with border/consular issues including all TN visas, L visas
and waiver of inadmissibility cases. For more information: Charles J. Leamy at Ogilvy Renault LLP; Montreal, QC; (514) 847-6103;
cleamy@ogilvyrenault.com

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Newcomers By Numbers
If towns like Hazleton, whose aging populations were on the wane before the immigrants arrived, succeed in driving newcomers away, those who remain will find themselves surrounded by empty storefronts, deserted restaurants and houses that will not sell. It's the civic equivalent of starving to death because you don't care for the food. But at least everyone involved can tell themselves their town wasted away while they were speaking English.

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Readers are welcome to share their comments, email: editor@ilw.com (300-words or fewer preferred). Many letters to the Editor refer to past correspondence, available in our archives.

Dear Editor:
Steve Fischel was a very good friend of mine and known him for last 4 years (ID 07/01/08). I met him last time in Vancouver in AILA 2008 while walking to AILA conference. It is very unfortunate that he is no longer with us . He will be missed by me and our staff.

Umesh Vaidyamath
San Ramon, CA

Dear Editor:
Re Ben's letter (ID 07/02/08), Yes, check the bureau of census for 1980, 1990, 2000 as to
legal immigrants. The congressional hearing was on yahoo news
video last week, The hospitals filing bankruptsy have all been
in the news in the last year, Check out web sites like the u.s. department
of justice on crime statistics, On the congressional hearing on yahoo
you'll see the testamony about illegals costing a million dollars each
for those they try to return to Mexico. I talk to former u.s. businessmen
abroad in person and hear their horror stories in person. When you
buy ground beef at the store, its not too bad, but when you roll in
the billions of dollars taxpayers put out for education and medical
it is a staggering amount when the added to the price of ground beef.
If you search the web for government statistics, they are all there.
What the letter calls opinion is
doumented facts by the best sources, that are indisputable.
It would seem facts are what the letter wants to ignore.My opinions
are from the most realiable sources. Check them out for yourself.
Quote them from the u.s. governments own websites. its really
easy to do or ignore facts and live in a fantasy of words.

david utterback

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